Robert Nickle

1919 Born, Saginaw Michigan

1937 Graduated with honors from Arthur Hill High School, Saginaw Michigan

1938-1942 Studied at University of Michigan, Architecture and Design, specialized in graphic and

Industrial design

1943 Enlisted in Navy and became App. Seaman and graduated from U of M. While serving.

1944 Studied at Institute of Design with Moholy-Nagy in Night classes

1946-7 New Realities, Paris, France

1948 Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago

1949 Exhibition Momentum, Roosevelt University - An exhibition in opposition to the

Art Institute Group Chicago Show

Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago

U.S. State Department Exhibition, 32 Foreign countries represented

1959 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA

1961 International Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1963 B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, IL

1965 Feigen-Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1966 B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, IL

1967 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL

1969 Collage, Purdue University, Valparaiso, IN

1971 Collages by American Artists, Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN

1974 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL

Collage, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC

Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

1975 The Other Tradition: Abstract Painting in Chicago, Michael Wyman Gallery

1976 Abstract Art In Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Acquavella Contemporary, New York, NY

Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1977 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL

Davis and Long Company, New York, NY

Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY

1978 Robert Nickle, Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Chicago Abtractionists - Romaticized Structures, Kansas City Museum, MO

1979 Chicago-Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Germany

Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield, MI

Abstractionists from Chicago - Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL

1980 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL

Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL

Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

Janus Gallery, Venice, CA

1981 Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

1982 Acquavella Contemporary, New York, NY

Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1986 Rosofsky and Nickle, Richard Gray Gallery , Chicago

1994 Robert Nickle Retrospective Gallery 400, University of Illinois

1995 American Collage, ACA Gallery, New York,

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago

Art in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in Chicago 1945-1995

2000 Collage in American Art, Robert Henry Adams Fine Art

Fifty Years of Contemporary Art on Paper, The Contemporary Arts Society of New Mexico

Collections

Art Institute of Chicago

Smithsonian Museum

University of Illinois Museum

Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo

University of Chicago, Smart Gallery

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Indianapolis Museum

Carnegie Institute Museum

Whitney Museum of American Art

Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa

National Gallery, Washington

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